I might have just stumbled onto something here guys.

Every so often, during the winter months when I'm not starting her up regularly, when I try to start the car she will flood. Pain in the ****, but no big deal. Now, I have found over the years that there are several ways to start a flooded rotary. Some are very easy (a couple caps full of motor oil down the carb), and some are pretty involved (pulling the plugs, draining the fuel out of the chambers by rotating the motor, clean the plugs, install, try again)...

Well, I tried the oil-down-the-carb method and she was just getting worse. So off to the garage for the tools needed to pull the plugs. I happened to stumble across a can of Seafoam with maybe an ounce left in it and figured what the heck. I dumped that down the carb and cranked it over.....

I swear to God, she did not even go a full turn and she started to try to start. She probably went three full revolutions before she kicked over and started right up. And she not only started, but ran great, with a nice crisp feel to the throttle response. A nice test drive confirmed the presence of a happy rotary.

So what do you guys think? Anybody else ever tried this? I didn't really think it would help, because when you dump it down the carb when the car is running then it will try to stall out. Seems strange to me, but I can't argue with the results. Let me know what you guys think about this one....

 

Murphy and his Law were out to lunch. Karma was looking over your shoulder.
aside from that.....cool

 

That's interesting. My J bridge sat for a year full of fogging oil and wd-40 in the combustion chambers. turned over by hand while spraying more wd-40 into carb.

fired up after 30 seconds on the starter.

 

Yeah, she'll start up okay even after sitting for a long time just as long as I do everything exactly right. But if I give it just a little too much gas after sitting, then I'm back into the world of "how to deflood a rotary"...

Anyway, I was just wondering if anybody else had ever tried this...

 

have never tried Seafoam before, but i plan to get familiar with it this week after i burn the 1.5 year old gas out of the tank.

 

I never used it to deflood my motor but i just got done using it this evening.

 

Feel any difference?

 

Very nice. I just use a cap full of 2 stroke. Seems to work ok for me and the extra lube can't be bad for the engine.

I will have to run a bit of seafoam through there though. I bet it will help out a good bit.